Crews finish cleanup of massive fish kill at Jersey Shore

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KEANSBURG, N.J. — Crews have finished removing more than a million dead fish that recently appeared in the creeks and waterways near a northern New Jersey shore town.

Keansburg Mayor George Hoff tells NJ.com that public works crews on Thursday morning picked up the last of the peanut bunker fish that began washing on shore at the Waackaack Creek earlier in the week.

New Jersey environmental officials raised the estimate of dead fish from hundreds of thousands to more than a million.